diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
index 8dd66f8e95d4..a09ce2b3ec15 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/groovy/org/apache/beam/gradle/BeamModulePlugin.groovy
@@ -601,7 +601,6 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
     // There are a few versions are determined by the BOMs by running scripts/tools/bomupgrader.py
     // marked as [bomupgrader]. See the documentation of that script for detail.
     def activemq_version = "5.14.5"
-    def avro_version = "1.12.0"
     def autovalue_version = "1.9"
     def autoservice_version = "1.0.1"
     def aws_java_sdk2_version = "2.20.162"
@@ -682,8 +681,8 @@ class BeamModulePlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
         antlr_runtime                               : "org.antlr:antlr4-runtime:4.7",
         args4j                                      : "args4j:args4j:2.33",
         auto_value_annotations                      : "com.google.auto.value:auto-value-annotations:$autovalue_version",
-        avro                                        : "org.apache.avro:avro:${avro_version}",
-        avro_tests                                  : "org.apache.avro:avro:${avro_version}:tests",
+        avro                                        : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.11.4",
+        avro_tests                                  : "org.apache.avro:avro:1.11.3:tests",
         aws_java_sdk2_apache_client                 : "software.amazon.awssdk:apache-client:$aws_java_sdk2_version",
         aws_java_sdk2_netty_client                  : "software.amazon.awssdk:netty-nio-client:$aws_java_sdk2_version",
         aws_java_sdk2_auth                          : "software.amazon.awssdk:auth:$aws_java_sdk2_version",
diff --git a/it/google-cloud-platform/build.gradle b/it/google-cloud-platform/build.gradle
index b5e5f6cc5190..f5fbcd8ba5d5 100644
--- a/it/google-cloud-platform/build.gradle
+++ b/it/google-cloud-platform/build.gradle
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation library.java.jackson_core
     implementation library.java.jackson_databind
     implementation 'org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-common:3.3.5'
-    implementation library.java.avro
+    implementation 'org.apache.avro:avro:1.11.1'
     implementation 'org.apache.parquet:parquet-avro:1.12.0'
     implementation 'org.apache.parquet:parquet-common:1.12.0'
     implementation 'org.apache.parquet:parquet-hadoop:1.12.0'